Get Stuff Done Fast, or Not At All
by Peter Coffee on September 25, 2007 at 11:35 AM
Key observations from Gartner's CRM Summit, held last week in Florida:
- Up to 25% of CRM implementations in 2008 will be postponed due to human resource shortages.
- Staff turnover makes long implementation times, often on the order of a year, highly vulnerable to loss of key players and consequent restart of key portions of the effort
Developer productivity, with radical shortening of the time from idea to application deployment, is therefore becoming a more non-linear issue than ever. If a process takes a month, you'll hit the target before it moves; if it takes a quarter, you may still have the team that you started with to do Release 2.0; if it takes a year, you may never get out of prototype mode. Elevate the priority of Getting [Stuff] Done.
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Posted by Robert Hambly on October 4, 2007 09:10 AM:
Great comments.
A nice supplementary book is
Getting Things Done by
David Allen
Posted by cep on December 12, 2007 10:03 PM:
Maybe developer productivity will become a non-linear issue but we will see this effect in totality. Development/platform productivity goes down because of new technologies. In one hand I'm developing my own site for new developers, other hand i'm trying to finish my project, in third hand i'm working on some plugins, and every month i'm testing some new products. Today It's hard to work fast.
Posted by cep on December 12, 2007 10:06 PM:
You can also check my softwares and global samples in our turkish archieve http://www.midletworld.com . This is a public archive.
Posted by JH on January 30, 2008 03:16 PM:
The simplest and most effective way deliver solutions that I found, is using the Agile Software Development methodolgy. This conforms to posting of keeping the development time short and concise with many iterations. Good thoughts!